I just spent a weekend with almost 40 teenage girls teaching them a variety of life skills. One of them was how to make a simple pillowcase. It started a bit rough, but pretty soon I had many of them hooked! I finally had to stop them from sewing at 11:30pm! Lights out was supposed to be 11:00. I had four machines going and there was a line for each one. But, seeing the smiles and hearing the “I want to make another one” made it all worth it.

They had a very full weekend, they had a session on basic car care (changed a tire, jump started a battery, checked fluids), learned some basic self-defense moves, made cinnamon rolls (I taught them the bread in a bag recipe that they then used to make cinnamon rolls that we ate for our breakfast). They also had a job interview where they had to bring their resume, get “appropriately” dressed. And after their interview they learned how to write a thank you note and wrote notes. All in all, a very busy, yet productive weekend.